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Topic: Bottom or Top? (Read 52800 times)

Jonathan, I arrived at a combination of loperamide and Pancrecarb (specifically 3 mg/twice a day of loperamide and 3 capsules/twice a day of Pancrecarb). The latter is worth looking into. If it's that bad as you say, it may even be worse than what I had please do request the tincture of opium. It's specifically for what you are describing. Still, the Pancrecarb is good for digestive absorption, flatulence and bloating.

Prescription enzymes such as PANCRECARB by DIGESTIVE CARE are often reimbursed. The PANCRECARB drug combines enzymes with bicarbonate to improve enzyme action by creating proper ph in the small intestine. In a double-blind placebo-controlled study, Pancrecarb was shown to successfully reduce HAART 1 induced diarrhea, and is reported to reduce gas and bloating, as well.

Oh right, and it significantly went away when I switched to fuzeon. That's like night and day, but adding the Pancrecarb helped significantly when I was on a double protease inhibitor regimen (Kaletra and Invirase)

I've been avoiding this thread because I thought it was in the wrong forum, but reading the last few posts made me want to back up Philly's comments on opium.

After seven months of loperimide, without much success, a new doctor prescribed a new combo of drugs for my IBS, including Lomotil. My first reaction was, "this shit could've saved the Titanic" with it's plugging effects. My life was changed. For the previous months I could go nowhere but work, home, and the grocery, and I had pit stops mapped out everywhere in between. I had heard nightmares stories about Lomotil, but my situation was chronic, and socially crippling enough, that I was willing to try anything. All of the sudden I could go to a movie. I went to a party. One day, I took a 7-hour road trip to my home town and back, not needing a bathroom the whole time. I even mentioned in a thread prior to Montreal last year that I wasn't afraid of travelling out of the country--I would just find a toilet when I needed it. That was confidence I hadn't had in over a year.

Wrapping up, I recently learned that Lomotil contains opioids, trace amounts supposedly, but enough to test positive on a drug screen. Should I need to have a drug screen, I'll be happy to tell them that opioids changed my life. For the better. Three times a day. And I have a new prescription that allows them to continue doing so up to four times a day.

Let me be clear -- I've never taken the tincture of opium. I just found out it existed last year and by then my diarrhea was better from switching to fuzeon. BUT it pissed me off to no end that I was never offered this previously, when doctors knew full well my problem and stared at me with big eyes when I stated I had to take TEN loperamides each day just to have *somewhat* firm stools. Like that ten doesn't even make perfect shit, just minimally acceptable shit. I blame them all for my resistance to Protease Inhibitors and that's why I'm so vocal about this issue. DO NOT ACCEPT YOUR DIARRHEA IF IT IS REALLY REALLY BAD.

It's one thing to have to take 2 loperamides/day but NOT TEN. Fuckers, and this spans several doctors so it's not like it was just one of them fucking up. Makes me pissed off just thinking about it. Yet another instance I'm sure of them being afraid of opiates out of some warped Calvinist American thinking. Pass me my laudanum sweetie darling!

So Basquo -- this Lomotil is just a synthetic narcotic that's just like the tincture or what? I think the tincture is liquid but I might be wrong.

Thats the thing. There HAS to be a solution to the awful diarrhea that does not involve nasty constipation and the roids and fissures that come with that.

Though the irony of losing my booty due to a disease I acquired through the healthy and vigourous use of the booty is not lost onme.

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"Many people, especially in the gay community, turn to oral sex as a safer alternative in the age of AIDS. And with HIV rates rising, people need to remember that oral sex is safer sex. It's a reasonable alternative."

Too bad you're not in NYC or I could send you to the best gay Jewish anus doctor in the city... the man is renowned! Works wonders with a laser gun. I had a dyslpasia of HPV treated by him... he's even written a book about gay butt sex.

"Many people, especially in the gay community, turn to oral sex as a safer alternative in the age of AIDS. And with HIV rates rising, people need to remember that oral sex is safer sex. It's a reasonable alternative."

I could give you his name and number. All these guys meet at conferences and make cliques. Or I could call him and ask. Everyone should get a PAP smear after having HIV ten years I was told.

I need to go for an inspection myself, but haven't set anything up since I moved from NYC 2 years ago. I really don't want cancer of the butthole. I know I've already got HPV, and I had a nasty bout of anal warts back in '97 or so. I *so* know who gave them to me. Fucker. Those things were the WORST to get rid of, and *hello* I had an grade 4 external hemorrhoid at the same time. I'd never had one, and I have not had one ever again. I think it was from lifting a heavy air conditioner the wrong way with my back up four flights of stairs. But the roid had to go away before they could attack the AW's so by the time that happened the AW's had magically multiplied as they are want to do. Oh... that was a bad year! That's when the diarreah began too -- I guess it's all like what you are enduring then. I so get it now. An external roid is so much worse than an internal one -- you feel like you're sitting on a little balloon! Mine was so large I think my doctor had someone else come in to observe it.

Having had HPV and cancer of the butthole, I understand the reticense. Poor thing has been through so much. Though to be fair, I cannot complain if I am unable to use it again for that purpose. Maybe you only get a couple thousand uses per consumer. I mean, seriously. Its not like I havent put it through its paces.

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"Many people, especially in the gay community, turn to oral sex as a safer alternative in the age of AIDS. And with HIV rates rising, people need to remember that oral sex is safer sex. It's a reasonable alternative."

hey at this point? I'll take my buttsex from an intern, a nurse, a construction worker, a vet, or a community service work-release inmate.

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"Many people, especially in the gay community, turn to oral sex as a safer alternative in the age of AIDS. And with HIV rates rising, people need to remember that oral sex is safer sex. It's a reasonable alternative."

I have a question. has anyone noticed side effects of meds, specifically anti-depressents, changed you from bottom 2 top or vice-versa? i know it sounds weird, but it happened to me...

drew

Yeah....one interesting and oddly beneficial thing that Paxil did for me and my lusty bottom boy, besides limiting my personalities to five, was to give me the ability to drill a loving hole for hours without coming.

This is great for the "top action" I've been in for the last ten years. Though I must say, I have also enjoyed a four year role as a bottom with a boyfriend who just didn't want to ride.

HERE'S A LITTLE SECRET...it takes a good bottom to be a good top. You never know when the shoe may be on the other foot. You know the golden rule: "Do unto others as you...." Somehow that seems a little blasphemous. Ooopsy.

I think is all depends on the chemistry. You can always get comfortable in any position when you don't put the pressure of perfection on yourself. I think with couples and/or random encounters people enter into the physical space with predispositions.

I am a total bottom. Before I seroconverted, I was more versitile, but whenever I get into a potential top situation now, I lose my erection completely. I know it is an anxiety thing. But I am also better at being a bottom, and yeah... power bottom would describe me.